Observatories
More Help on the Way for Verifying ExoPlanets in Kepler’s Dataset
[/caption] With the Kepler spacecraft finding over 1,200 planetary candidates, the next step is verifying their actual status. That will…
Students Find Rare “Recycled” Pulsar
[/caption] From a press release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory: In the constellation of Ophiuchus, above the disk of…
Mission Complete: NEOWISE Concludes Hunt for Near-Earth Objects
[/caption] The WISE spacecraft has completed a special mission called NEOWISE, looking for small bodies in the solar system, and…
First Images from Europe-Wide Giant Radio Observatory
[/caption] An array of radio telescopes has connected for the first time to its various locations across Europe, creating the…
Hidden Companion Responsible for Surprising Disk Around Strange Supergiant Star
[/caption] For several years, astronomers have been trying to get a good look at a peculiar supergiant star that is…
First Light for New Spectrograph
[/caption] From the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics: The new observing instrument VIRUS-W, built by the Max Planck Institute…
Hidden Treasure Within the Orion Nebula
[/caption] This dreamy look inside the Orion Nebula is the latest “Hidden Treasure” released by the European South Observatory, part…
The Biggest Astrophoto… Ever!
[/caption] Today, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS-III) is releasing the largest digital color image of the sky ever made,…
Fermi Telescope Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space
From a NASA press release: Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms…
Star Birth and Death in the Andromeda Galaxy
[/caption] To the naked eye, the Andromeda galaxy appears as a smudge of light in the night sky. But to…